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- 1 2 "The Farmer's Wife". 1 February 1955. p. 26 – via BBC Genome.
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- ↑ Dan Dietz (2014). "1951-1952 Season: Courtin' Time". The Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 77-79. ISBN 9781442235052.
Works cited
- Coleman, Terry. Olivier: The Authorised Biography. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2005.
- Williams, Gordon. British Theatre in the Great War: A Revaluation. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2003.
